With all due respect, Senator Schiff. You couldn't prevent Brainworm's confirmation. You couldn't stop the "Big-Beautiful-bill" from passing. What on God's green earth makes you think you can get Republicans to do ANYTHING on guns?
When the Dems start talking about 2A stuff taking away any type of firearm it energizes the MAGA fold . Useless bill at this time that can’t pass and should be left unless the Dems win both houses. VP Harris did the same thing. It can lose elections. Call me wrong but I believe that.
Speaking up about what we as Dems stand for never hurts😊 Even if it has no chance. A similar bill did pass under Reagan and Clinton. Nothing Dems present has a chance, but at least they can show what they stand for.
No one I know -- liberal, independent, or not -- will give up their guns in the face of a fascist takeover of our government. The proletariat will remain armed. #JustSayin
This is strictly a fund raising attempt. Now he'll get to say "I introduced a bill with the toughest assault weapons ban yet" The fact that Dems are arming up right now is just his complete inability to read the room.
Precisely noted. Schiff's tone-deaf move reminds me of how GOPers campaigned from the same message of "Obama/Biden are coming for our guns." This is the Dem equivalent.
Who is this legislation for? People who don’t follow the fall of democracy and are outraged that Dems aren’t doing business as usual? This is weird. We are under attack by an administration captured by Russia hello. They are winning.
This is not the time. There are SO MANY other issues to give your time and energy to. Gun control is a non-starter in a Republican controlled government. Please work on other stuff that matters more, like funding food aid or liveable minimum wage.
This will never pass and YOU KNOW IT. Do things to fire up public opinion that might actually shift policy. Stand in front of the empty Port of Los Angeles. Remind people the GOP Senate refused to take back their tarriff power . Go to CECOT & introduce the NO Ripping the Constitution to Threads Act.
Waste of time. Won’t pass. There are more concerning issues at this moment. Literally, read the room. You are way out of touch here. As a supporter of yours, this is beyond disappointing.
Your priorities are simply fucked up. That's why this country is turning into ruzzia. And you're going to be the first one to fall out of a window... But yeah, let's ignore the reality and talk about guns... Again.
Neat. So anyway, are you aware that our democracy is on the brink of total collapse into authoritarianism? Maybe you should focus on that; you and you fellow Dem senators need to learn how to prioritize your actions…
The Constitution states with crystal clarity that only those in a well-regulated militia are entitled to guns. No one else is entitled to guns, even if the Supremes decided in the last few decades they don't like that part.
Not quite so crystal clear really (read 2nd) though it doesn’t say arms can’t be regulated, which Justice Scalia confirmed.
Unlike the totally made up a ruling that Presidents can act with immunity when welding their Presidential powers. That flies in the face of all men are equal under the law.
Exactly! And every time the meaning of “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed” has gone before the Supreme Court they have taken it to mean individuals have a right to bear arms. Though they also ruled it can be regulated. So NOT crystal clear.
So a ruling to ban certain types of weapons can & had pass in our history. Also rules on who can own weapons can be regulated. What has never passed is banning of majority of citizens right to own a gun.
Seeing as how you’ve had YEARS to do this but you waited until now speaks volumes about your character. How about you focus on the FACIST government taking our rights????? We’re not going to have to worry about gun laws when we have NO RIGHTS AT ALL. jfc I cant with you morons.
what the fuck is wrong with you? We LITERALLY will need to defend ourselves soon, and you’re talking about taking guns away. Fucking unreal, how feckless and useless the dems are. I live in Trump country, I want my guns, fuck off asshole, how goddamn stupid can you be right now!?!
I can see that you don’t give a shit about what your constituents are telling you. This is not the right time to do this. Not by a mile. Do better, or I’ll remember this next time you’re up for re-election.
Obviously we need gun laws reformed. But that is never going to happen with the current administration and Congress being a R majority. There are so many other things that need our focus right now... like stopping the oligarchs from literally stealing everything and fucking the rest of us sans lube.
Focus on the larger issue: Get Trump and friends out of the White House!!! What are the Democrats waiting for? Get off your assess and join your constituents in protests, and put your foot down in Congress. It's absolutely ridiculous that you guys have let it get this far! ... Bunch of pussies. 😾😹
With all due respect, this is a fight we desperately want to win, but we need to focus on what is being thrown at us by Trump and his administration and the silence of Republicans letting him destroy our Constitution.
Nobody is joining the Democrats in passing gun safety!
Glad you're doing this but it feels so pointless. This is legislation with zero chance of passing, meanwhile we're losing our democracy to a wannabee dictator.
Nobody reads your replies on this issue do they? Because right now this feels like you're willing to disarm us when we actually need a 2nd Amendment against a tyrant government.
Not only that, but he doesn’t listen to his constituents who call his office to voice their opposition to this. I’m one of those constituents and I’m fucking pissed.
@schiff.senate.gov i saw someone post to start referring to mass shootings as 'extreme late term abortions'. Perhaps you should as well. Might finally get their attention. Also referring to the guy infesting the WH as DICTATOR might wake some people up.
This is a wonderful cause but since it hasn’t got a snowball’s chance in hell of accomplishing anything more than giving an impassioned speech, we need our leaders to focus on grinding the destruction of our nation to a halt.
While The Nazi /Putin Party is overthrowing the USA !!??
NOW IS NOT THE TIME!!
Once this Coup Party is voted out or arrested
I’ll be all for that
#ReadTheRoom
You still don't get it.🤦♀️ Americans have a whole lot going against them that you're not picking up on for whatever reason, and it's not a Bill you know has no chance. Trump is the biggest openly corrupt president ever. Work on that. Stop wasting tax monies on this.
It seems clear to me that the Republicans have been giving strict orders. Nobody is to break lines. I think eventually it will happen and of course we need just a few of them to have some sense in order for us to get anything past, but they are just so absolutely terrified.
Yes, for those of you who are too young to remember, we had this under the Clinton administration and crime was so much better gun crime. It’s just gone insane since Bush let the law lapse the stupidest decision. Then Republicans let NRA money let guns spiral out of control in this country.
I think anything other than talking about due process being stripped from humans here legally and citizens is performative politics. There may not be another election, stop trying to win it and deal with the now. I don’t know what you can do, I don’t know what I can do. This helps no one though.
While this is important, the overthrow of our Democracy should be the primary activity our elected officials need to focus on. No chance in hell this even gets considered.
An armed minority is harder to oppress. We have actual fascists running the country and you want us disarmed? We need common sense firearm and ethics training.
This is definitely a critical issue, much like #replaceSchumer. With better leadership we might gain leverage and get things like this passed, instead of caving on everything.
Schiff you milquetoast idiot, they will take guns from anyone who does not pass a political purity test!!! Hey maybe you should FOCUS on getting off your ass to defend us instead of inventing new issues today.
Common sense will be impossible under the federal regime of pro-gun violence laws. Californians have no voice on this and other vital issues. Your words are not "action." Support California putting the independence referendum on the ballot. Let Californians decide.
#calexit
Adam should just take this down. Put it on the back burner. The time for this was a decade ago. Now we may need to defend ourselves against a heavily armed rw cult and military and Majorie Taylor Greed.
Take it down. Impress us with impeachment.
So as the US falls to tyranny, your solution is to finally do something about the one thing Americans have that exists literally for the purpose of fighting tyranny?
Choosing the right side is literally a no brainer and somehow you still boned it.
We have called for Gun safety legislation on Assault rifles for years and years.Now in the middle of a Fascist Coup against our Government, when the Nation itself is at stake and the people is the last line of defense you show up.
Trump is the Tyrant our founding fathers warned us about.
Not now!
I'm in Texas. Guess which demographic are showing up at my local gun range: women; LGBTQ; minorities. This isn't the time nor the place to disarm in the face of a fascist takeover of the government.
I agree, we have no idea where this is going, nobody expected Jan 6 to happen and Trump 2.0 is 10 times worse. Congress are only people just like you and me and can do nothing if the Trump regime gets violent.
STOP using the terms, common sense or common sense. That means to form an opinion without supporting facts/evidence.
DO use the terms, child protective, as that will engender positive emotions around children, and where gun regulation does have supporting acts and evidence.
WHEN are Dems going to SPEAK UP and denounce #47's attempt to axe funding for PBS??? It's one of MOST dictatorial things he's done yet! That is OUR MONEY!!!!!!!! WE THE PEOPLE want OUR tax dollars to CONTINUE funding PBS!!
It's not normal times anymore though. We are on the brink of civil war, and the 20ish percent of America who are in a domestic terrorist cult already have a stockpile of weaponry. This bill will likely get weaponized against people trying to fight back when the war starts.
They are fools to think they are the only ones that have guns. Plus they too will be greatly impacted if Trump sends this country into a recession or depression. Might be them fighting the govt or siding with a Civil Revolt against it.
I don’t disagree it will never even make it to the floor to be voted on, nor will it rise to be debated. The country already has opinions set on this issue & it comes up every few years, so not much new to weaponize about it anymore.
Not sure if civil war, Great Depression, Civil Revolt coming next
But the message it sends when *this* of all legislation he is introducing, knowing it won’t go anywhere, is tone deaf. It reads as same old same old. Just a normal day in a normal administration, when that is not at all where we are.
To some maybe. To many these bans on assault weapons are a huge deal. I guess they are just doing what they can. The big fight the Dems put up in the Armed Services Committee was amazing, but GOP still voted down every amendment. In fact GOP are blocking Dems oversight powers, but they keep trying
I get that and not to be hyperbolic but I don’t think many people are going to applaud cracking down on guns at the very time we are on the cusp of a civil war
If this is what he's spending his time doing, he needs to be removed and replaced with someone who will actually FIGHT fascism, and not help them enact project 2025..
Speaking out and speaking up matters. What are you doing?? We all need to be writing and calling our GOP Congress and getting out to protest. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJDbq2zAzLy/
Clearly you didn't read any of my posts.
I've been to every single protest in my area & went to a few where I went on Vacation.
I've been posting about the injustices & crimes of this regime on every account I have.
I've been volunteering at the local shelter & helping my neighbors prep.
YOU???
Much thanks, Senator Schiff, for your courageous work in the United States Senate to reduce tragic gun deaths & injuries of children, women, & men across the country.
Now is not the time for this Senator. They are coming for us and you are pushing gun control? We have to get a slice of the Republican Party to cross over to us and this will derail that!
Sounds Iike you’re weaseling around for the GOP so they don’t have to take the hit for gun reform aka taking people’s guns away to defend themselves from this bs admin.
If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel: 1-877-447-4487
If you march at a busy intersection, use the crosswalk and erupt in thunderous noise as you cross. Then, let cars go, wait for the next signal to erupt again. Repeat
Blocking traffic gives police an excuse to stop you, _and_ letting cars go gets the word out to more happy drivers!
Limiting guns at a time when it seems the US is on the cusp of Civil War to try to defeat GOP fascism smacks more of collaboration than it does increasing safety of American citizens. Not to mention your bill has zero chance of passing in the GOP Senate, so this is just empty grandstanding Senator.
and it gives the GOP political ammunition, and further alienates centrist voters from joining the dems.
Schiff is actively hurting the country's futurr with this grandstanding bullshit.
I appreciate the effort, tho unfortunately it’s going nowhere.
Let ‘s work on jamming up Trump’s corrupt nominees. Making sure tax bill fails and screaming to the top of our lungs “Due Process” & that Medicaid, Medicare or social security cuts will devastate this country with Tariff impact coming!
Republicans own the house and senate and Trump owns them. Guns kill children. I don't think you will win this with Trump in the WH. He won't take their guns until he has too.
I take it from the video that you’re introducing gun legislation. But I don’t want to have to watch a video to find that out. So I’m begging the Schiff social media team (again) to put the action in the POST not just in a video. This is about effective communication, not how many clicks you get.
Every Dem should be calling out what the russian asset mob boss, and his quislings are doing, everyday. You
have to know it won’t pass right now anyway.
Why now? The country is in a constitutional crisis, so this priority is skewed. Your focus should be getting rid of the traitors in the administration. I can't help but question your responsibility to protect the constitution.
I've read most posts, who are filled with Democrats criticizing. And they wonder why Trump won twice. Republicans back their candidates at all costs. Why can't Democrats be as loyal? I'm embarrassed by Voters.
i suppose if you can't stop trump and the republican party from dismantling the goverment you might as well chase a pipe dream its probably all you have anyways . VOTE THE DO NOTHING DEMOCRATS OUT OF OFFICE.
Comments like No more thoughts and prayers only hurt your chances of getting your message to the hearts of people of faith who you need. Gun safety is a big issue stop the divison address the problem. Listen to Nancy P. who said Dems lose because of messaging around God, Guns and Gays. Hard truth.
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Sorry senator, now is not the time to modify the 2nd amendment.
We're close to needing protection from a tyrannical government since Congress won't act.
and that the term ""common sense gun control"" is a red herring fallacy
Please read a newspaper and see what is happening on this country.
And he should SAVE PBS and NPR
And be working on getting RID of the Maggot Klan
Unlike the totally made up a ruling that Presidents can act with immunity when welding their Presidential powers. That flies in the face of all men are equal under the law.
https://youtu.be/k84BGW9oSGQ?si=7-dys_skMDzdBW7h
Nobody is joining the Democrats in passing gun safety!
Priorities.
#ShallNotBeInfringed
Why no movement then? You know when you had any authority
NOW IS NOT THE TIME!!
Once this Coup Party is voted out or arrested
I’ll be all for that
#ReadTheRoom
Any second now I fully expect to hear every Republican in the universe rally behind the old second amendment, blah blah blah shit
because of this they’ll rally against everything - incl impeachment
#calexit
Take it down. Impress us with impeachment.
Choosing the right side is literally a no brainer and somehow you still boned it.
Trump is the Tyrant our founding fathers warned us about.
Not now!
CAN CONFIRM. I sleep next to an AR platform and (grandfathered) 30 round mags fully loaded. I also go to the range with other LGBTQ/allies.
Fucking Liberal.
THIS IS NOT WHAT WE WANT YOU TO FOCUS ON RIGHT NOW!
Seriously. You are wasting your time, and wasting political capital.
DO use the terms, child protective, as that will engender positive emotions around children, and where gun regulation does have supporting acts and evidence.
God, every time Dems seem to be inching forward, they always lurch wildly back to their old ways.
At the University of Alabama on Thursday when he boasted that the Tesla CEO—and his Silicon Valley colleagues—have started “kissing my a--.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-takes-a-surprise-dig-at-elon-musk-after-tesla-ceos-white-house-exit/
Chuck Schumer must pass the baton, get out of the track, go sit on the bleachers and have a cold Fanta.
Not sure if civil war, Great Depression, Civil Revolt coming next
I've been to every single protest in my area & went to a few where I went on Vacation.
I've been posting about the injustices & crimes of this regime on every account I have.
I've been volunteering at the local shelter & helping my neighbors prep.
YOU???
This is not how you fight fascism.
we NEED Ar15’s to fight Fasicsm.
Are you complicit?
If you march at a busy intersection, use the crosswalk and erupt in thunderous noise as you cross. Then, let cars go, wait for the next signal to erupt again. Repeat
Blocking traffic gives police an excuse to stop you, _and_ letting cars go gets the word out to more happy drivers!
Your calculus is now this; it's very simple
Move against the administration
The first ones to do so will be labeled 'courageous' and 'patriotic', while the last ones to do so will be primaried
You are in power, now
That U.S. Congressional switchboard number is
202-224-3121
Schiff is actively hurting the country's futurr with this grandstanding bullshit.
The latter sounds like you want people to stop thinking or praying. I assume that is not your intention.
Let ‘s work on jamming up Trump’s corrupt nominees. Making sure tax bill fails and screaming to the top of our lungs “Due Process” & that Medicaid, Medicare or social security cuts will devastate this country with Tariff impact coming!
have to know it won’t pass right now anyway.